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APARTHEID AND BEYOND
SOUTH AFRICAN WRITERS AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE |
| By: |
Rita Barnard |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199791163 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199791163 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2012 |
| Pages: |
234 |
| Description: |
Apartheid and Beyond explores a wide range of South African writings to demonstrate the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. |
| Synopsis: |
Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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